How Ww2 Started
WWII RESEARCH
Vincent Kwok
Alexine Yap
Amy Nguyen
Linh Dan Tran
Question: Was the Wall Street Crash of October 1929 the main reason for WWII starting in September 1939?
a. Identify parameters of question
>>>”The main reason”?
Obviously, we know that there are several other reasons to have started WWII. We will, however, still inspect to what extent the Wall Street Crash had on subsequent events leading up to WWII, and attempt to link the other causes to each other in order to gain a holistic view of how WWII started.
>>>What time period should we focus on?
We should inspect some background to the Wall Street Crash (that means investigating the 1920’s), what happened during the Great Depression, what happened in Europe between the Great Depression and the outbreak of WWII (1929-1939) and what its global impact was (for example, Japan was hit hard by the Great Depression as well). WWII itself was officially from 1939-1945
>>>What was WWII? (brief definition)
WWII was the deadliest, most far-reaching conflict in the history of the world. It involved almost all the nations of the world and had the highest amount of casualties, both military and civilian. The war reparations were also staggering. It officially began in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland and ended in 1945 when the Japanese surrendered to the Allied Forces, following the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
>>>Why did WWII begin? (Main causes)
Expansionism/Imperialism
→ Japan: The Japanese were suffering from the Wall Street Crash since they relied on exporting raw materials to other nations like the USA, who did not need them anymore due to the huge surplus of materials they have during the Great Depression. The country was desperate and thus the ideas of the military leaders of the time to invade Manchuria in order to get natural resources was greatly backed by public appeal. In 1931 the Japanese invaded Manchuria (re-naming it as Manchukuo and establishing it as a
Vincent Kwok
Alexine Yap
Amy Nguyen
Linh Dan Tran
Question: Was the Wall Street Crash of October 1929 the main reason for WWII starting in September 1939?
a. Identify parameters of question
>>>”The main reason”?
Obviously, we know that there are several other reasons to have started WWII. We will, however, still inspect to what extent the Wall Street Crash had on subsequent events leading up to WWII, and attempt to link the other causes to each other in order to gain a holistic view of how WWII started.
>>>What time period should we focus on?
We should inspect some background to the Wall Street Crash (that means investigating the 1920’s), what happened during the Great Depression, what happened in Europe between the Great Depression and the outbreak of WWII (1929-1939) and what its global impact was (for example, Japan was hit hard by the Great Depression as well). WWII itself was officially from 1939-1945
>>>What was WWII? (brief definition)
WWII was the deadliest, most far-reaching conflict in the history of the world. It involved almost all the nations of the world and had the highest amount of casualties, both military and civilian. The war reparations were also staggering. It officially began in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland and ended in 1945 when the Japanese surrendered to the Allied Forces, following the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
>>>Why did WWII begin? (Main causes)
Expansionism/Imperialism
→ Japan: The Japanese were suffering from the Wall Street Crash since they relied on exporting raw materials to other nations like the USA, who did not need them anymore due to the huge surplus of materials they have during the Great Depression. The country was desperate and thus the ideas of the military leaders of the time to invade Manchuria in order to get natural resources was greatly backed by public appeal. In 1931 the Japanese invaded Manchuria (re-naming it as Manchukuo and establishing it as a